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What an awesome weekend at Washington Pass! Definitely the best skiing we have done this season.

Saturday

We had never done the Birthday tour so we needed to check it out. We never thought we would be doing the Birthday tour almost on Chris' birthday at the beginning of April.

We and several dozens of our best friends shared this fine day on the slopes leading to the Blue Pk Col and beyond. There were 1-2" of powder sitting on top of firm crust and ski crampons were very useful. We kept looking at the slopes across the highway that looked so nice, yet we never heard of anybody skiing there. Hm, why is that?

The cornice was looming large at the col:

Skiing on the other side was fantastic - smooth, creamy, soft, just super fun turns.

We decided to check out Copper Mountain:

Some booting required:

Really fun skiing down:

Exiting down to the Hairpin turn had some nice powder higher before we hit icy, chunky terrain below.

Thanks to the splitboarders who gave Chris a ride back to the Blue Lake TH!

Sunday

Lazy bird catches the corn! After a leisurely start, we decided to check out those nice looking slopes around Cutthroat Peak. There sure must be a catch - these slopes look so good and are so obvious, if it was really that easy, everybody would be skiing here, right?

We waited for the "catch" to happen but it never materialized. Instead, we found ourselves going up beautiful, open basins with amazing ski potential. We were psyched!

Now I know why this peak is called Cutthroat! Because if you tell anybody how good the skiing is there, you will be dead

In a perfect world, everybody would act with the correct etiquette and follow the rules. Human nature as it is= NOT GOING TO HAPPEN....no matter how many discussion on ski blogs/websites. Face reality............

Nice pics! We call it the "Hall of the Mountain King" for all the big rocks the king has thrown down from Cutthroat. (I doubt the king is really trying to keep it locals only, but watch out!) That was us through it before you two. It is good and solid over there this year, often deep mush or crust on a normal year. Now back in December...........